Legal Commentary

Elected Officials Score Lower on Civics Tests Than Average Citizens (Who Score Lower than Basic Condiments)

Posted on November 23, 2008
American elected officials showed a shocking lack of knowledge about government, history, and basic constitutional principles in a national survey. They scored a failing grade of just 44 percent on a basic test of knowledge of our nation in a quiz by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)...

Smokin? Sharia: Men Sentenced to Prison for Lighting Up During Ramadan

Posted on November 23, 2008
Algeria’s highest court (in a country supposedly committed to secular values) has imposed prison sentences on three men caught smoking during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. In a purported triumph of the rule of law, the Algiers appeals court reduced the prison sentence from three years to two months...

Maryland State Legislator and Sponsor of Child Protection Laws Sentenced to Three Years for Child Pornography

Posted on November 22, 2008
Former Republican legislator Robert A. McKee, 59, has been sentencing to more than three years in prison for possession of child pornography. McKee was not just a First Christian Church trustee and executive director of the Hagerstown Big Brothers Big Sisters — he was a key sponsor of the Child Protection from Predators [...

Police Officer Stops Car for Speeding and Then Takes Driver?s Xbox

Posted on November 22, 2008
When Kenyatta Hillman and his friend were stopped by an Orange County deputy sheriff for speeding, he thought it was a simple matter of a ticket. Then the officer spied a new Xbox in the backseat. The officer insisted on checking if the Xbox serial number showed that it was stolen...

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Twelve-Year-Old Student Arrested for Passing Gas in Class

Posted on November 22, 2008
Florida School officials at the Stuart’s Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School had a twelve-year-old Florida student arrested for “deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class.” What is astonishing that that there were not only clueless teachers who would call police on such a matter, but that they found abusive police officers who would make an arrest [...

Gunn Control: Parents Demand that Porn Star Be Fired As Lunch Lady

Posted on November 22, 2008
The good people of Vineland, New Jersey are demanding that an elementary school cafeteria worker and playground monitor be fired from her $5,772 a year part-time job because of her prior work in the adult entertainment industry. Louisa C. Tuck, 32, was known as Crystal Gunns and the parents want her fired despite the [...

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case of Disability Activist Barred From Filing Any Futher Lawsuits

Posted on November 21, 2008
The Supreme Court has refused to grant review of the strange case of Jarek Molski, a advocate for the disabled who has been barred from filing any more lawsuits after bring over 400 complaints under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The case refused certiorari in Molski vs...

Teenage Boy Savagely Murdered In India for Writing Love Letter to Girl From Lower Caste

Posted on November 21, 2008
The Indian caste system has produced another atrocity and another victim. Manish Kumar, 15, was like any other teenage boy with his first crush. He wrote a love letter to a girl in his village. However, Kumar was from a dairyman community, which is a higher caste than the girl’s washerman community...

Talkin? Turkey: Palin Gives Interview as Man Slaughters Turkeys Behind Her

Posted on November 21, 2008
This video should be a classic for years to come. Gov. Sarah Palin gave an interview this week after giving a turkey the annual reprieve — a photo op that all politicians crave. This is not exactly what they strive for. As she speaks to reporters, look over her shoulder...

Open Grills: Another Woman Testifies That She Helped Lori Drew and Set Up Mean Meier

Posted on November 21, 2008
In bombshell testimony, Ashley Grills, a co-worker and friend of Lori Drew, admitted under a grand of immunity that it was her idea to set up Megan Meier, 13. Grills also admitted that she was the one who sent the terrible final message that told Meier that the world would be better without her [...

West Virginia Police Officer Fired After Using Taser on Pregnant Teenager

Posted on November 21, 2008
Sgt. Steve Smith has been fired by East Bank, West Virginia after the city council learned that he had used a taser on a pregnant teenager and a firefighter. Smith was still on probation as a new officer after joining the Kanawha County department less than a year earlier...

Hindu Extremists Offer Rewards to Kill Christians in India

Posted on November 21, 2008
Extremist Hindu groups have reportedly offered rewards or bounties on killing Christians in India. There has been a sharp increase in attacks on Christians in India. This controversy has sprung up in England after the government refused to bar entry to members of such groups as Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), despite their allegedly [...

Mukasey Collapses at Federalist Society Function

Posted on November 21, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed last night at a Federalist Society dinner. As shown in the video below, he was caught by two nearby men who noticed him slumping at the podium. He was rushed to our hospital at George Washington University where he reportedly made a quick recovery and received a call from President [...

Surf?s Over: Iran Blocks Millions of Internet Sites and Arrests Iranian ?Blogfather?

Posted on November 20, 2008
Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites in a crackdown on immoral and antisocial viewing. Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi, an advisor to Iran’s prosecutor general, explained that “The enemies seek to assault our religious identity by exploiting the Internet...

Step Away From the Corpse: Police Taser Pallbearer at Funeral

Posted on November 20, 2008
The New Hanover County Sheriff’s office had a neat idea of how to arrest Gladwyn Taft Russ III, 42, for threatening his wife. When his father died, they waited until he was putting the casket in the hearse on the way to the cemetery and swooped in to grab him...

What a Tool: Home Depot Founder Says People Who Do Not Support GOP ?Should Be Shot?

Posted on November 20, 2008
Home Depot’s founder Bernie Marcus appears done building a customer base. In a conference call, Marcus said that retailers who did not support “Norm Coleman and these other guys . . . should be shot.” This gives the store’s “you can do it, we can help motto” a bit more menacing meaning...

Mother Jurist: English Judge Sues Barrister Daughter Over Tell-All Book

Posted on November 20, 2008
One of England’s first black female judges is embroiled in a bizarre fight in the court with her daughter. The case has the English bar all atwitter and has finally reached this side of the pond. Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, 74, has sued her daughter Constance Briscoe (who is s part-timejudge) for libel over a [...

A Really Bad Day

Posted on November 20, 2008
This picture sums up how a bad day can become suddenly far worse. This picture is worth seeing to put one’s day into perspective. No matter how bad today may be going, you are not as bad off as this driver. [Warning: the picture has a bad word that I cannot remove]...

Lame Duck v. Endangered Ducks: Bush Moves to Strip Key Provisions of Endangered Species Protections

Posted on November 20, 2008
President George Bush is moving ahead with a new plan to strip away key protections for endangered species to finalize the changes before President-elect Barack Obama takes office. The plan is to remove scientists and experts from using their pesky findings and data to prevent development...

Soldier Under Investigation for ?Baby Cockfight?

Posted on November 20, 2008
The video below is highly disturbing. It shows adults egging on two crying infant boys to get them to fight each other. An unidentified soldier at Fort Bragg, North Carolina is now under investigation. Alicia Scheideger, the boy’s mother, told ABC News her ex-husband, had custody of her son and she reported [...

A Happy Goat

Posted on November 19, 2008
There is absolutely no legal, policy, or religious content to this posting. I just love this picture and it is my blog. I am convinced that this goat has achieved a level of mystical tranquillity that has escaped all but the oldest and most devout Buddhist monks...

Sen. Ted Stevens Loses in Alaska ? Awaits Sentencing on Corruption Charges

Posted on November 19, 2008
Senator Ted Stevens (R. Alaska) appears to have avoided an expulsion vote in the Senate on Thursday by losing his seat in Alaska on Wednesday. The convicted felon had vowed to continue in office while challenging his federal conviction. The election, however, showed that roughly half of Alaskan remains pro-family and pro-felon...

Oh My God, Al Qaida is Racist Too!

Posted on November 19, 2008
Who would have thought it? It turns out Al-Qaida (Al Qaeda) is not just anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-women, and of course murderous. They are also racists, as shown in the recent attacks by Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri of Barach Obama...

Father Shoots and Kills Daughter While Cleaning Guns and Drinking Shots of Vodka

Posted on November 19, 2008
Richard Peters of Marysville, Washington has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree manslaughter after shooting his 6-year-old daughter Stormy while he was cleaning his guns — and drinking double shots of vodka. Peters told Stormy to bring him the ...

The Murder and ?The Hidden Hand? of St. Pius: Two Catholic Priests Arrested for Murder of Nun

Posted on November 19, 2008
John Grisham should be booking a ticket to India. Sixteen years after the body of Sister Abhaya was found in the well at the St. Pius convent in Kottayam, India, two priests and a nun have been arrested for murder. Father Thomas Kottor, Father Joes Phthrukayil and Sister Abey are being held on [...

French Court Rules That Muslim Man Cannot Divorce Wife For Faking Virginity

Posted on November 19, 2008
A French appeals court has reinstated the marriage of a Muslim man who sought an annulment because his bride lied about being a virgin. A lower court granted the annulment but the appellate court has declared that they are still unhappily married. The couple married in 2006 and the lower court in northern town of Douai [...

Martha Stewart and the Great Salmon Rose Caper

Posted on November 18, 2008
For those shocked by the lawsuit by an Iowa magician and hand model over an allegedly defective product, the dark truth over Stewart’s menacing merchandise was foretold in the column below in 2002. The Great Salmon Rose Caper After months of congressional hearings and investigation, Martha Stewart now appears at real risk of federal indictment...

Iowa Magician Points the Finger at Martha Stewart: Tort Case Alleges Product Defect in Lounge Chair

Posted on November 18, 2008
This is the story of Martha Stewart, the Lounge Chair, and the Magician’s finger. In Des Moines, Iowa, Patrick Albanese is suing Kmart Corp. and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia after he lost the tip of his right index finger while carrying the Martha Stewart Everyday lounge chair on his deck...

The Lord Will Not Provide: Religious Organizations Firing Employees Due to Lack of Contributions

Posted on November 18, 2008
It appears that the economy is hitting evangelical groups and universities — once thought to be recession-proof. Both Oral Roberts University and Focuc on the Family have announced major layoffs. The Oral Roberts layoffs come shortly after a settlement with the founder’s son...

When Law Students Attack: IL Puts Robber Into Hospital to Protect His Case Notes

Posted on November 18, 2008
Arizona State Law Student Alex Botsio was willing to part with his wallet and guitars when faced with an armed robber but intruder Gabriel Saucedo learned that he would have to pry away his cold dead fingers from his laptop containing his class notes...

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